Pen Sword: 3374 books
by Yefim Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
'Spy in the Sky' matters have long been a source of interest and fascination for aircraft enthusiasts, historians and modellers and none more so than the elusive and secretive Soviet types of the Cold War era. Yefim Gordon presents us here with a range of such types, presenting a collection of photographs,...
by Sergey Burdin
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
This historic Russian aircraft was first delivered to the Soviet Air Force at the height of the Cold War in 1961. It remained in service until replaced by the much modified Tu-22M Backfire which was introduced in the early 1970s and still remains in service. It was the first Soviet supersonic bomber...
Secret Wings of World War II
Nazi Technology and the Allied Arms Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
There are many myths and legends surrounding the advanced German aeronautical technology of the Second World War. There are also facts and proven events. Yet within these stories and behind these facts lie conspiracy theories, mistaken assumptions and denials that seem to contradict the evidence....
by Yefim Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Features;
* Profiles of iconic types such as the Mil MI-24 'Hind', the Mil-28 and the Kamov Ka-52 'Alligator'.
* Summary of design histories and careers
* Colour reference for paint schemes
* Critical review of available kits
* Over 180 colour and black and white illustrations, including...
The Reich Intruders
RAF Light Bomber Raids in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
This is the story of 2 Group RAF during World War II. Much of it is told by the men who flew the Blenheim, Boston, Mitchell and Mosquito aircraft that carried out many daring daylight and night-time raids on vitally important targets in Nazi occupied Europe and Germany. These were not the famous thousand...
Germanicus
The Magnificent Life and Mysterious Death of Rome's Most Popular General
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
“The story of a Roman Emperor that might have been” (Fighting Times).
Germanicus was regarded by many Romans as a hero in the mold of Alexander the Great. His untimely death, in suspicious circumstances, ended the possibility of a return to a more open republic. This, the first modern biography...
The Roman Invasion of Britain
Archaeology Versus History
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The purpose of this book is to take what we think we know about the Roman Conquest of Britain from historical sources, and compare it with the archaeological evidence, which is often contradictory. Archaeologists and historians all too often work in complete isolation from each other and this book...
Marcus Agrippa
Right-hand Man of Caesar Augustus
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Marcus Agrippa personified the term 'right-hand man'. As Emperor Augustus' deputy, he waged wars, pacified provinces, beautified Rome, and played a crucial role in laying the foundations of the Pax Romana for the next two hundred years – but he served always in the knowledge he would never rule...
Fighting Through to Kohima
A Memoir of War in India and Burma
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2004
Lt. Col. Michael Lowry MC MBE, was awarded the Military Cross for his role in the desperate defensive action at Kohima, rated the worst of the campaign in Burma. After joining up in 1939 with the Queen's Royal Regiment, the Author was posted to the North West Frontier of India where he cut his teeth...
From Dunkirk to the Rhineland
The Rhineland via Normandy and Brussels
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Charles (Charlie to his comrades) Murrell kept detailed diaries of his service with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards throughout the Second World War as Guardsman (later Sergeant).
This book starts on 10 May 1940 with the Blitzkrieg on Arras and the retreat to Dunkirk. The Dunkirk beaches and...
Commando Despatch Rider
From D-Day to Deutschland 1944-45
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
After 41 Royal Marine Commando had cleared the Normandy beaches they faced a long overland campaign to reach the German border. The commandos developed an elite force of motorcycle dispatch riders as part of this effort. Raymond Mitchell's vivid memoirs of life and war on the road will be of interest to both military and motorcycling enthusiasts.
Sunk by Stukas, Survived at Salerno
The Memoirs of Captain McCrum RN
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
In January 1939 he shipped his first stripe to become an Acting Sub Lieutenant and joined HMS Skipjack, a fast fleet minesweeper, as navigator. The ship was initially based at Harwich as part of the 2nd Minesweeping Flotilla. Having worked-up to operational readiness the flotilla moved to their wartime...
In the Face of the Enemy
A Battery Sergeant Major in Action in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
In Part One Powdrill describes his experiences in France during ‘the Phoney War’ and then their baptism by fire in May 1940, culminating in the evacuation from Dunkirk having left their disabled guns behind. Ernest was wounded but many of his colleagues were killed by ferocious German counter-battery...
Fips
Legendary U-Boat Commander 1915-1918
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Weuner FŸrbringer (Fips) became one of the most successful U-Boat commanders in WW1 through a blend of skill, daring and, by his own typically modest admission, sheer luck. This vivid memoir, never before published in English, makes compelling reading.This is an inspiring and chivalrous story; it...